Plants get and Give Energy
Relationships in an Ecosystem
Rocks and Minerals
LEFTOVERS
Food Chain
100

The process plants use to make food from sunlight, water and air

Photosynthesis


100

The path that energy follows in an ecosystem.

Food Chain
100

The solid, non-living materials that make up rocks.

Minerals
100

Plants take in THIS during respiration.

Carbon Dioxide

100
An animal that is hunted for food
Prey
200

The green material in plants that traps energy from sunlight

Chlorophyll
200

ALL living and non-living things in an environment.

Ecosystem
200

The type of rock that forms when melted rock from the earth cools and hardens

Igneous Rock
200

Plants release this gas that humans breathe.

Oxygen

200
An animal that hunts another animal for food
Predator
300

In a food chain, a plant is THIS, not a consumer

Producer
300

An organism that gets its energy by consuming other living things.

Consumer
300

This scale shows the hardness of minerals.

Moh's hardness scale
300

All the members of one species in an area.

Population

300
The beginning of the food chain; the source of energy
Sun
400

These plant parts use sunlight to make food.

Leaves
400

An organism that breaks down dead animals and plants and recycles the nutrients back into the ecosystem.

Decomposer
400

This type of rock forms when sediment is pressed together

Sedimentary Rock
400

The way a mineral splits or breaks along flat surfaces.

Cleavage
400
The FIRST consumer in a food chain
Primary consumer
500

The process of plants taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.

Respiration
500

Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

Food Web
500

The way light reflects off a minerals surface.

Luster
500

The type of rock that forms when existing rocks are changed.

Metamorphic Rock
500
An organism that breaks down other organisms after they die
Decomposer
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